Last week, we were invited to come to the Dutch Media Professionals Rethinking Media “Show me the money” Congress.

I was in the “Kies je niche” (choose your niche) panel with Gonny van der Zwaag en Jean-Paul Horn (iPhoneclub.nl). Erwin Blom asked us how we started up our niche travelblog network Spotted by Locals, and how we made a business out of it. Many good questions from the audience too!

My mother threw her 60th birthday – moving back to Holland party with 70 best female friends.

For those who know my mother – above invitation card (made by Boekvorm – info@boekvorm.nl) is very appropriate…

Ria’s keuken did the catering – like she did on our wedding day. Great food!

I was here 2 weeks ago:

Really nice congress at V2 with artists, city planners, techies and commercial people talking about Augmented Reality. Also Claire Boonstra of Layar was there. Too bad she didn’t mention our Spotted by Locals Layar application!

Thanks Carl and Kwela of PortalToYourDreams for organizing and inviting me!

Vondel uncovered, originally uploaded by bartvanpoll.

Vondel is back – shining as new!

Rotterdam, originally uploaded by bartvanpoll.

Visited Rotterdam last Sunday with my brother. Finally had the chance to see some great Spotted by Locals Spots!

Bammetje - Yummie breakfast

Bazar – Great lunch. Try the Borek / burek

De Witte Aap – Not so lively during the day, but cosy. Expensive beer!

Kiem Foei – Chinese, Antillean, Suriname snacks – we sampled all cultures – all good!

Mama – Nice art center, but this exhibition was not my cup of tea

Tent / Witte de With- Very cool exhibition on Moralism – HQ videos, nice staff!

And we also checked out the fancy place Dado, where Jules Deelder was supposed to be dj-ing. We were too early I guess.

• Sao Paolo street art – video of famous Os Gemeos duo. http://bit.ly/7RPyyH #
• E-mail conversations from people from .fj , .lt , .ad this morning. Long live the Internet! #
• Heather Nova sent me an e-mail with a wonderful version of “Maybe Tomorrow” – Live in Zurich! http://files.me.com/heather.nova/jhirx4.mp3 #
• I’m at Struik (Rozengracht 160, Amsterdam). http://bit.ly/6vzN3Q #
• RT @stephanbon: RT @calanza: Reizen wordt vanaf nu veel leuker…. http://bit.ly/8vjOVM #
• Interested in SEO or display advertising on our cityblogs by locals in 22 cities? http://bit.ly/7ALPTW #
• almost there! (@ Bocinque) http://bit.ly/4nvauV #
• Gouden clip van de Opposites – Broodje bakpao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn-noqGTwuo #
• Just tried to make falafel – it resulted in some sort of chick-pea/oil-soup. Still don’t know what we did wrong… #

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Nice interview with my musical hero Heather Nova.

• lucky fonz theatershow. Ben benieuwd! (@ De Kleine Komedie) http://bit.ly/2ZvW6P #
• najib amhalj! (@ Theater De Meervaart) http://bit.ly/3qe0JK #
• Hippe Amsterdam tent tip! Bo5, Bocinq – de nieuwe tent van de familie Reijnders. Nog niet officeel open. http://www.bocinq.com/ #
• Yes! We launched mobile augmented reality app for city travelers! http://bit.ly/OhRBO Thanks http://www.d-media.nl and @layarmobile! #

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• Lekker met een peuk
  http://www.vanpoll.net/internet/lekker-met-een-peuk #
• I’m at Hesp (Weesperzijde 130HS, Amsterdam). http://bit.ly/3FvIS5 #
• I just became the mayor of Hesp on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/3FvIS5 #
• 50 mini-snickers en twix over. NUL kids langsgeweest voor sint maarten, terwijl ik vorige jaren regelmatig voor lul zonder snoep stond #
• Dr. d billboards – creative and interesting street art! http://bit.ly/46tbQQ #
• In Dauphine. Meeting Mandy of http://www.Like-a-local.com! Good business-name! #
• De Standaard has sent us PDFs of our big Saturday newspaper feature last week! Now readable (if you’re Dutch/Belgian) http://ow.ly/BQpz #
• Sent 15 proposals in 2 days to companies that are interested in promotion options on our cityblogs . My fingers are crossed to the max…! #
• New vaio klapjap battery – from 2 seconds to 6 hours battery life again! #
• And now: beer with my fraternity “brothers”. #
• bn’ers overload (@ bo5) #
• getting my “ik tag” at mediamatic travel amsterdam #
• marianne faithful! (@ Paradiso) http://bit.ly/2ycN46 #

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LEKKER met een peuk, originally uploaded by bartvanpoll.

“Enjoy the cosy inside with a cigarette…” The smoking ban isn’t really working in Holland.

Seen in Rotterdam last week.